just found out the factorization of 65,535 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257
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the factorization of 4,294,967,295 is 3 × 5 × 17 × 257 × 65537, too
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@tef i wanna figure out whether this is a statistical pattern now
@tef off-by-one powers of two in the factorizations of off-by-one powers of two
@tef subcase of proth primes
@tef factors into Mersenne primes but moee often into 2^n+1, which doesn't have a name afaik?